EBS

Amazon not providing any feature for changing AMI root device type, once we generate an instance with Instance-store we can’t upgrade the instance because for upgrading instance should stop. The stop option is disable for such instance-store AMI’s. I followed the steps below, It can be workout by two ways either using rsync or dd

Here is the steps:

Create an EBS vol with size as same or more, I used 10G because my existing instance having 10G on root.